The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
One of life's terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they're doing. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“I'd been the culinary equivalent of the Flying Dutchman too long, living a half-life with no future in mind, just oozing from… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
It just seems there's better things to do in your life than be on television if it's not interesting, if it's not… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I'm sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living--all I… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
As you move through this life...you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
An employer of mine back in the '80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Very few restaurant workers could even dream of eating in the restaurants they work in. Many do not make a living wage. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“And I’m not going to tell you here how to live your life. I’m just saying, I guess, that I got very… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he's been making his whole life, and he's still unsatisfied… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I guess my whole life, as much as I might have wanted a child for the reason that everybody wants one, I… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small.… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, every… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“He doesn't yearn for a better, different life than the one he has - because he knows he's got a home in… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There's a lot… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I'm in no position to try to tell people how to live their family life. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I write quickly with a sense of urgency. I don't edit myself out of existence, meaning I'll try to write 50 or… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
This is the dream of all the world. The dream is to live in Granada. You know, work in the morning, have… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I'm very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I couldn't imagine a more unreliable, more unprofitable way to make a living than writing. My advice? Show up, do the best… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
If I were trapped in one city and had to eat one nation's cuisine for the rest of my life, I would… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“Glasgow is maybe the most bullshit-free place on earth. I think I call it "the antidote to the rest of the world."… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“And, well, for most of my life I’d been way too far up my own ass to be of any use to… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“The joke went that everyone gained 5 pounds in baking class. I could see what they meant. It was held in the… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
[When I die], I will decidedly not be regretting missed opportunities for a good time. My regrets will be more along the lines of… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I'm at my most productive before I even have my first cup of coffee. I only get slower and stupider as the day progresses. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The Italians seem to have a better attitude with kids and the food is great! — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Just because I like sushi, doesn't mean I can make sushi. I've come to well understand how many years just to get sushi rice… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I've sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don't… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“What’s the most frightening thing to a child? The pain of being the outsider, of looking ridiculous to others, of being teased or picked… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“I saw how three or four ingredients, as long as they are of the highest and freshest quality, can be combined in a straightforward… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
You realize after you travel enough that there's some things that, no matter how good you are at making television, no matter how good… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
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